Re: Macedon and Monmouth

: : : : Does anyone know where the saying "As different as Macedon and Monmouth" originated from?

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: : : I've found it! It's from Shakespeare's Henry V.

: : Thanks for posting and letting us know.

: Pardon me for being a dunce, but lacking a copy at hand of Henry V, I don't know whether there's any significance in this choice of place names. Is it just that both start with M, but are very far apart geographically? SS